She might as well have said to the fire, "don’t burn!" but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

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The divining party again laid their heads together: apparently they could not agree about the word or syllable the scene illustrated.

Who would not be the Rizzio of so divine a Mary?

They affirmed that she had even divined their thoughts, and had whispered in the ear of each the name of the person she liked best in the world, and informed them of what they most wished for.

Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare — to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.

Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.

From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death.

The last letter I received from him drew from my eyes human tears, and yet filled my heart with divine joy: he anticipated his sure reward, his incorruptible crown.

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I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking, — a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

I was still listening in thought to her well-remembered tones — still picturing her pale and spiritual aspect, her wasted face and sublime gaze, as she lay on her placid deathbed, and whispered her longing to be restored to her divine Father’s bosom — when a feeble voice murmured from the couch behind: "Who is that?"

…would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; to His warnings that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, "If ye suffer hunger or thirst for My sake, happy are ye."

No; they not only live, but reign and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell — the hell of your own meanness.